Reddit mentions of Big in China: My Unlikely Adventure Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Reinventing Myself in Beijing

I'd start reading more about China and checking out a lot of China blogs. China ranks pretty high on the list of countries that foreigners have trouble adapting to.

Here is a pretty good book about a guy who started a bar band as kind of a lark to play Blues music in China and ended up playing large music festivals: http://www.amazon.com/Big-China-Adventure-Reinventing-ebook/dp/B004HD61JA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1341847716&sr=8-3&keywords=big+in+china

Is your idea feasible? It absolutely is for a lot of reasons others here have stated. You'll be a novelty and the Chinese have a strong curiosity for western culture. As others have said, it will probably go easier for you in some of the lesser known, yet still modern cities. Would avoid Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong as you will be one among many foreigners competing to do the same thing.

If you decide to go for it, you should check out Popup Chinese and Chinese Pod to get started on learning the language. Would recommend this over expensive yellow boxes. Also, get Pleco www.pleco.com for you tablet or smartphone. It is the absolute must have tool for learning Chinese.

Sounds adventurous. If you do it, I hope you come back to this subreddit and post a link to your blog, if you do one. Would love to see how it pans out.